Its partial resurgence was the first great step in
the processes of the Apotheosis. It was the possession of this body,
in some degree, which distinguished a man as "spiritual" from the
psychic and "hylic" men. The Astroeides included the "natural" body in
its consummation, under a great transmutation, for it was the "Wisdom"
at the basis of material nature.

I have transferred the account of the "City of the Man" from where it
stands, at the end of the MS., to this place, as it seems more
intelligible here, and the exact order has been obscured by the
confusion of the leaves.

(20) _Cp._ "Poemandres," 15: "He [the Man], beholding the form like to
himself existing in her, in her water, loved it and willed to live in
it: and with the will came act, and so he vivified the form devoid of
reason. And Nature took the object of her love and wound herself
completely round him, and they were intermingled, for they were
lovers.... Thus, though above the Harmony (or Fate sphere), within the
Harmony he [The Man] hath become a slave, ... and though he is
sleepless from a sleepless Sire, yet is he overcome by sleep."

This is the Mystery of the concealment of God in Nature, a mystery that
was sometimes presented under the symbol of a self-scattering,
sometimes under the symbol of a magical sleep, or mystic death.

(21) "The Earth that brought forth the God" is the "ground of the
individual soul," and is also the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Universe,
the Hidden Sanctuary where the "Man" is raised from mystical death or
is reborn. No doubt the symbolism is drawn from Egyptian sources.

(22) This passage might be paraphrased, "Those who have received Life
and Light in the Concealed Sanctuary of the Soul know, through this
Crown of Perfection, that the Inheritors of the Kingdom of Light are
indeed reborn from the Indivisible Body, who is the Mother of us all.

(23) AAA +OOO+ = The Living Space of Spaces, AEon of AEons. See note 18
and _cp._ Rev. 1:8, 17-18: "I am Alpha and Omega ... the First and the
Last, and the Living One; and I was dead, and, behold, I am alive unto
the aeon of aeons."

(24) The Body of Christ, which in its transcendental aspect is also His
Bride and Mother. _Cp._ 2 Clem. xiv.: "I do not suppose that you know
not that the living Church is the body of Christ; for the scripture
saith, 'God made Man, male and female; the male is Christ, the female
the Church; and the books and the Apostles belong not to the